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478 Hymns of the Atris
sometimes as if expressing other forms and even other personalities
of this universal godhead. Savitri, again, manifests himself,
especially in the formation of the Truth in man, through four
great and active deities Mitra, Varuna, Bhaga and Aryaman, the
Lords of pure Wideness, luminous Harmony, divine Enjoyment,
exalted Power.
But if Surya is the creator, he who is, as the Veda says, the self
of all that moves and all that is stable, and if this Surya is also the
divine, “the wide-burning Truth that is lodged in the law which
upholds heaven”, then all the worlds should manifest that law of
the Truth and all of them should be so many heavens. Whence
then comes this falsehood, sin, death, suffering of our mortal
existence? We are told that there are eight sons of the cosmic
Aditi who are born from her body; by seven she moves to the
gods, but the eighth son is Martanda, of the mortal creation,
whom she casts away from her; with the seven she moves to
the supreme life, the original age of the gods, but Martanda is
brought back out of the Inconscient into which he had been cast
to preside over mortal birth and death.
This Martanda or eighth Surya is the black or dark, the
lost, the hidden sun. The Titans have taken and concealed him
in their cavern of darkness and thence he must be released into
splendour and freedom by the gods and seers through the power
of the sacrifice. In less figurative language the mortal life is
governed by an oppressed, a hidden, a disguised Truth; just as
Agni the divine seer-will works at first upon earth concealed or
obscured by the smoke of human passion and self-will, so Surya
the divine Knowledge lies concealed and unattainable in the
night and darkness, is enveloped and contained in the ignorance
and error of the ordinary human existence. The Seers by the
power of truth in their thoughts discover this Sun lying in the
darkness, they liberate this knowledge, this power of undivided
and all-embracing vision, this eye of the gods concealed in our
subconscient being; they release his radiances, they create the
divine Dawn. Indra the divine Mind-power, Agni the Seer-Will,
Brihaspati the Master of the inspired word, Soma the immortal
Delight born in man aid them to shatter the strong places of the